Anyone who calls themself a "software engineer" should be required to be licensed, have a graduate degree in engineering & carry at least $1 million in professional liability insurance. And certain types of software should only be sold if approved by a software engineer.
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No, actually, not at all. If you want to read a more nuanced tweet than my ham handed tweet, it's below. But I wasn't thinking of your wonderful games, complex as they are and no you would not need a license or really anything.https://www.theblockcrypto.com/post/61814/law-licensure-and-technological-innovation …
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Unreal Engine is also used in architectural visualization, automotive visualization, film and television, and numerous other industries. Wouldn't be if regulators locked self-taught programmers out of work.
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A person can still build on (or iterate) on the UE without licensure, just as much as someone with a 3D printer can make an emergency ventilator. Even for people using UE for essential (lethal if malfunctioning) cases, the person signing off on the software would be licensed
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Governments have no more right to require a license for writing a program than they have to require artists get a permit before making a painting, or authors to get a license to write a book. The future you’re describing is, simply put, tyranny against free expression.
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"I’d be out, and Epic games and Unreal Engine wouldn’t exist" sounds good to me
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That would be terrible for games and the industry.
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It's okay, he's just salty for all the College tuition fees he's paid to be out-classed by people who didn't and refined their skill.
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Out-classed?
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You don't need the tittle of engineer to makes or game engines.
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Can we please come up with an alternative word for engineer? One that isn't linked to the licensing / profession lal institutions? And carries the same power?
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